The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-06

from another world, had, however, been
much struck by my adventure He pressed
mo to evoke the phantom, promising his inn
phcit belitf II it responded to my call.
Either from boldness or weakness, | did
what no asked; the shrek was repeated three
times in succession, in most terribly loud
and rapid manner On reaching our friends
door it required the whole house to get us out
of the carriage, where we were both found
in fainting fit
after this dreadful scene / was some
months without hearing any thing more. /
thought | was forever delivered from this
mystery, but was mistaken.
"All the theatrical company had been
ordered to Versailles to attend the marriage
ceremony of the Kings eldest son. We were
to be away for three days In the hurry
and confusion of arrival some persons were
unprovided with rooms. Mad. Grandval
had none. l waited with her until one
should be found, but in vain. At o'clock
III the morning l offered to accommodate her
with one of the two beds in the room pro-
vided for me in the Avenue de ST. Cloud
She accepted. gave her the smaller bed ;
and as soon as she had retired | got into
mine. While the chambermaid was undreSs-
ing to rest beside me, / said to her: we
are here at the other end of the world ;
the weather is abominable, and the ghost,
l fancy, would have some trouble to seek
us out here'
ga frightful shrek followed.
MAD. Grandval, who made sure that
hell had been let loose in the room, ran,
terror stricken, with nothing on but her
shift, up the stairs and down the stairs
and all over the house, where nobody
could be found to close an eye the whole
night.
But never heard the Shrek again.
"a week or so after this happened, while
chatting with my guests at home as usual,
just as IL o'clock sounded ON the bell, the re-
port of a gun fired under my window at
tracted every ones attention. We
all heard the report and we all saw the
fash. The window, however, had re-
ceived no damage. We concluded that
some unknown person had attempted to
take my life, and having failed, certain
precautionary measures must be had for the
future. The director flew to the house of
NJ. de Marville, the lieutenant of police,
who was friend of his. The soldiers lost
no time in coming. All the houses in front
of my own were searched; they were closely
watched the days following; my own house
was also carefully searched the street was
filed with all manner of police spies; but,
do all we could, for three whole months the
same loud report was heard, always at the
same hour directed toward the same window
pane, without any one ever having been
once able to detect the place whence the
firing proceeded. The fact stands recorded
on the police registers.
Accustomed as | was to my ghost, whom
[ found good-natured enough after ALL since
he did no further harm than play on me his
hocus-pocus- tricks, | one day, feeling very
warm and oblivious of the hour, opened this
identical window, when the director and |
leaned on the balcony outside. Eleven
o'clock sounded; the explosion occurred,
and we We're both flung violently backward
into the middle of the room, where we fell
as though dead On recovering our senses
and finding that no bones were broken we
looked at each other. and agreeing that we
had each been gratif1ed, he on the left cheek
and l on the right, with the most awful
being ever received, we set up
laughing like mad. The next day nothing
occurred The day after, however, invited
by Mile Dumesuil to be one of the guests at
a select evening party, which she gave at
her house near the Barriere Blanche, | got
into a cab at l. o'clock and started with my
chambermaid. 1t was a bright, clear night
the moon shone beautifully, and we were
driy en- along the boulevards, where houses
were being built. We were looking at the
works going on there, when my chamber
maid said:
is it not somewhere out here that NJ.
de S. died?,'
"'From what have been told it must be, ,
said pointing with my finger, in one of
those two houses there before us
AT the same moment an explosion like
those had so often experienced burst from
one of the two buildings, and went like a
g1Inshot clear through our carriage. The
coachman, thinking he was attacked by
thieves, gave the reins to his horses, and we
reached our place of appointment, having
scarcely recovered our senses, and, as re-
CARDS myself, in state of fright which, I
admit l was long time getting over.
This was the last achievement of the
kind with firearms.
Il next experienced another visitation
1t was as if a clapping of hands took place
the hands were clapped in measured way
and with reduplication or increase The
noise, to which the goodness of the public
had accustomed me, long prevented my
making any remark about it. My friends,
however, who had heard and watched for
me, asserted that it took place at II o'clock,
almost under my doorway. we hear it,
they said, but can see nobody. 1t is evil
IDENTIFY a continuation of what you have
already experienced
GAS the noise this time had nothing terri
BILE about it, | took no heed of its duration,
nor of the melodious strains which | after
ward heard 1t was like a celestial voice
that gave the prelude of the noble and ten
der tune 1t was about TO sing; the voice be-
gan singing some distance off, at the Care
four de Buci, and finished at my door; and,
as in every preceding case, | could hear and
follow the notes, but nobody could be seen
FINALLY, after two years and half, all
noises ceased
Zone day somebody came to tell me that
an elderly lady was outside who desired to
see my apartments. When she came in
was seized with a fit of trembling, which it
was impossible for me to control. J. looked
at her long time from head to foot and
my emotion increased when / discovered
that she also felt as / did. All could do at
the time was to ask of her to take a chair
she accepted, for we both had need of a seat
Our silence continued, but our eyes left no
doubt of our wish to speak. She knew who
/ was, but l had never seen her before; so
she felt that it devolved on her to speak first,
and this is what she said:
81 was the best friend of NJ. de s., and
the only person he consented to see during
the last year of his life; we both counted
the days and hours in our converse about
you, who seemed to us now an angel, now a
devil. l pressed him constantly to try and
forget you; he as constantly protested that
he would love you even beyond the grave.
Your last refusal to see him fastened his
death. He counted the minutes, when at
1890 o'clock his lackey came back and
said that decidedly you would not come.
After a minute of silence he took my hand,
with an increase in his despair which alarm